ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



AND 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. v. APRIL, 1894. No. 4. 



CONTENTS: 



Fall — Collecting in the Sierras of S. , Visitors from South America iiy 



California 97 ! Editorial 115 



Taylor— Larva and pupa of P. homerus loi Economic Entomology ii6 



Townsend — Ants from Las Cruces 103 | Notes and News 118 



Fernald— Elementary Entomology 104 Entomological Literature 121 



Van Duzee — Note on Scolopostethus.... 108 Entomological Section 125 



iJyar— Arkansas Lepidoptera 108 Cockerell— A new Chrysis 125 



Skinner— Tachyris ilaire 110 j Coq_uillett— New Diptera from Wash.... 125. 



.\aroti — The Bold Robber Fly no I Fox — Fossorial Hymenoptera 126 



COLLECTING IN THE SIERRAS OF S. CALIFORNIA. 



By H. C. Fall, Pomona, CaL-i. 



'The chief glory of Southern CaHfornia is its cHmate; but, un- 

 like the proverbial lion, the Summer temperature is sometimes 

 more pronounced than it is painted — by the real-estate agents. 

 When the mercury has frisked about for several weeks between 

 90° and 115°, the average man begins to feel the need of a read- 

 justment of surroundings, and circumstances permitting, hies 

 himself to the coast or to the mountains. 



My friend, Mr. F. D. Twogood, of Riverside, and myself con- 

 sidered the above sufficient excuse for contracting with the stage 

 driver to set us down on the top of the San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains one morning in early July. 



Both Mr. Twogood and myself have a weakness for entomology, 

 he being partial to the Lepidoptera, while I lean rather toward 

 the Coleoptera. In the following remarks I shall confine myself 

 to noticing a few of the beetles taken during a month's stay on 

 the mountains. 



We camped in a litde valley at about 5000 feet elevation, 

 through which an ever lessening stream fringed with alders and 

 willows flowed toward the Mojave Desert. The higher ground 

 was rather spansely wooded with pine, fir, cedar and oak, the 

 conifers predominating. The little variety of vegitation indicated 



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